22 portraits of Locals doing hotel-y things now grace the glass hallways of Harmon Guest House, an art-infused contemporary hotel right off the plaza, in downtown Healdsburg.

Created with tempera paint on glass, this temporary installation is a result of the joint envisioning of hotel owner Circe Sher and local artist Alice Warnecke Sutro. Locals were invited into the hotel and asked to perform quintessential hotel scenes while Alice drew them from life in her signature style. Alice’s gestural work and methodology embodies the fundamental principles of human nature: to gather together and relish in the interpersonal connections where joy and meaning blossoms. As a concept, the installation also highlights a hotel’s forever-question with a comical inversion: how to get to know a place well enough to feel like you’ve seen it like a local? In this case, the locals are situated within the hotel to enjoy that space like it’s their home.

Visit this installation while enjoying a drink at the Rooftop, M-F 3-8pm, Sat -Sun 1-8pm.

Locals, 2021
Tempera on Glass
Site specific ephemeral drawing installation
Commissioned by Harmon Guest House
Documentation photography by Brett Walker

Full building facade installation of figure drawings, drawn free-hand, on site from pedestrians, by Alice Warnecke Sutro featuring consumers and producers in the town of Healdsburg. Commissioned by Little Saint, this piece is one of three installations by local women artists that will roll out over summer 2021 with the goal of activating the facade of the modern grange building while the interior is being renovated. More images and information can be found @alicesutro and @sutrowine.

Alice’s project is made possible by an equipment donation from Aaction Rents, an indispensable wine industry partner, who is providing the scissor lift to accomplish the top level portraits. Thank you also to Atlas Vineyard Management for orchestrating the equipment donation.

Little Saint will open to the public in fall 2021 at the former SHED space at 25 North Street, a few blocks from the Healdsburg Plaza. This marks the third location for Saint Joseph’s Arts Society launched by interior designer Ken Fulk as a space to inspire dialogue in arts, fashion, food, craftsmanship, design, and tech. Artists Victoria Wagner and Féven Zewdi will be creating their installations over the following summer months.

Alice Warnecke Sutro's outdoor installation "Downtowners" is one of 9 pieces commissioned for Healdsburg’s Creative reopening. The artwork is a video of lines turning into drawings that feature 11 portraits of people who live and work in downtown Healdsburg. Projected onto a 30 foot tall outdoor building, it is visible nightly until the end of February at 420 Healdsburg Ave. It is part of the Illuminations Exhibit in Healdsburg, CA, curated by Jessica Martin with The Healdsburg Chamber. More info: www.artinhealdsburg.com and video documentation here.

Portraits of friends, family, neighbors and artists drawn from photographs during Spring 2020 SIP. Gallery Lulo commissioned six portraits of their artists as part of this series.